May Day (variation 11), 50 x 40 inches, inkjet print
MAY DAY STATEMENT
May Day was my great grandmother’s birthday (1900) and my great grandfather's birthday (1896). She was a Swiss immigrant. He was an Irish immigrant. They met at a May Day dance in New York amidst the 1918 flu pandemic. Neither knew it was the other's birthday. They were married in May of 1920. I use what remains of their wedding china to make these improvisational compositions. Like many inherited china sets, there are dishes long since missing, chipped, and broken. What was once whole is now hardly recognizable. As I arrange the surviving pieces as repeated photographic elements in an infinite number of visual relationships, I breathe new life into a disintegrating family heirloom.
May Day (variation 01), installation view, 60 x 40 inches, inkjet print on adhesive paper
May Day (variation 01), 60 x 40 inches, inkjet print
May Day (variation 07), 60 x 40 inches, inkjet print
May Day (variation 18), 70 x 200 inches, 8 inkjet prints
May Day (variation 18), detail, 32 x 24 inches, inkjet print
May Day (variation 18), detail, 32 x 24 inches, inkjet print